US Patent Issued on March 31 for "Method and apparatus for the production of a rubber compound used for the manufacture of an article made from rubber or a pneumatic tire technical sector" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,523, issued on March 31.

"Method and apparatus for the production of a rubber compound used for the manufacture of an article made from rubber or a pneumatic tire technical sector" was invented by Paolo Straffi (Rome), Fabrizio Baroncini (Rome) and Giuseppe Pezzullo (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus (1) for the production of a compound used for the manufacture of an article made from rubber or a pneumatic tire by a continuous mixer (2) divided into a mixing section (MS) wherein the mixing of the components of the compound being processed exclusively takes place; a reaction section (RS) located downstream...